??This morning Tori was on the couch while I made breakfast.?? I could see by her wide eyes that she was watching me to see if I would “catch her” up to no good.?? Those eyes are always a dead give away to trouble.?? She had the remote.?? When I asked her to hand it over she puckered, cried, and slowly extended it to me.?? I took her in my arms and said “Mommy is so proud of you!?? When you obey when you don’t want to it counts twice.?? You didn’t want to give that to me but you did it anyway – good job baby girl!”.?? In that moment – I felt it – God winked at me (hee hee).??
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??I love her happy smile.?? Life is good.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about different ways to accomodate and work with Ty.?? He is capable of so much…but still…there are struggles.?? I have received a few encouraging notes from Dad lately with his own fatherly tips on how to approach things – I love those.?? He knows I have been quite stressed on this subject – even dreaming about it.?? Last night watching American Idol, I listened to the words of the Miley Cyrus’s song “The Climb”.?? As a side note, I am not a Miley fan.?? David told me I would be if I had a girl.?? Now I have one.?? Still not.?? Anyhow, I can’t say I cared for the performance but I did appreciate the words and couldn’t help but thing of my sweet boy.
The chorus says:
There is always going to be another mountain
I am always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle
Sometimes I am going to have to lose
Aint’ about how fast I get there
Ain’t about what is waiting on the other side
It’s the climb
I appreciate those lyrics on many levels.?? Where Ty is concerned, the line that jumps out at me is that it doesn’t matter how fast one gets there.?? Ty doesn’t do anything on anyones schedule.?? It makes no difference though.?? In Ty time – it comes.?? Uphill battles have a big place in building character.?? Ty lives on the side of that hill and he doesn’t even realize it.???? I pray that Jim and I are able to teach him to appreciate the climb.?? I hope I learn to appreciate my own climb.?? He still can’t climb to the top of the bunkbed but as he said to me the other day “can you help me up there mommy??? Maybe when I am seven I can do it”.?? :)?? His character is already better than mine.?? He doesn’t demand that the mountain be moved.?? He is content to wait it out and goes about his happy business in the meantime with a spirit of joy.
11 responses to “The Climb”
Wasn’t God good, no, not just good… but… THOUGHTFUL, gracious, kind, to give Ty an inborn spirit of joy? If that natural instinct sticks Ty will continue to teach ALL of us a WHOLE bunch about this journey. It makes me proud of that boy… but more proud of God. What a delight he made when he made “Baby Ty”. (Sometimes that still slips out when Seth and I refer to him… I think Tori has sort of traded places and become “Baby Tori” now though – maybe YOUR youngest will always be “Baby____” to us. 🙂 )
Like you – that song really gets to me. I just love it. I can’t imagine any of us that can’t relate to the words on some level… life IS a climb and we so often just want the destination – not the journey – ESPECIALLY the part about climbing UPhill!!! I actually printed out chords for the song but haven’t quite ‘learned’ it yet. I’ll keep messing around with it though. It is so inspiring.
ps- i want to see more of Tori’s profile. i can almost see it in first picture and it is ADORABLE
(I can see it in the first picture on Comfort REALLY well… she has what my family affectionately calls “Ducky Lips” in the way she’s looking at her brother… talking to him maybe. 🙂 )
I’m so proud of that Ty boy. I could sure use him and his sunny attitude in my life every day. Thanks for sharing.
Almost forgot, the Dress is beautiful!! Those shoes are really cute shoes too….and she is just too cute! That dimple gets me every time!
That is beautiful about Ty and climing the ladder! I love it, what a very precious boy and family you have!
Ty is the personified energy of all the happy puppies of the world charging one little boy. He genuinely is excited to see you, share his world with you and love you with NO demands in return. What he gives far surpasses what he needs. Everyone needs a TY in their life. I sure love mine.
I love that line “Ty is the personified energy of all the happy puppies of the world charging one little boy.” Couldn’t have said that better myself LOL. That was a GREAT one!
My girls are Miley fans so I ave heard this song over many times and I do love it. As for Ty- our conversation is still running strong. I hear your emotion in this posting.
i’m with you doni – that quote is PERFECT! and for a puppy lover like me – i can TOTALLY get that. i think i know ty even BETTER after that phrase. 🙂
I was thinking of Noah and some of his school friends when she sang that song. I had been with Noah and his class at Special Olympics that day which is just so magical and then thinking about that while Miley (who I’m not a fan of either) sang The Climb brought tears to my eyes.